UNIVERSITY - OF « TORONTO
The Bulletin
MARCH 23, 1998 « 51ST YEAR - NUMBER 15
Tuition and Aid
Policies Debated
BY BRUCE ROLSTON
tflWTO STUDENT OFFERED
admission to a U ofT pro-
gram should be unable to enter or
complete the program due to a lack
of financial means.”
So reads the statement of princi-
ple in the university’s new policy
on student financial support, due
to go before Academic Board for
approval next month.
The policy, along with its twin
policy on tuition fees, embodies the
recommendations of the recent
provostial task force on tuition and
student aid. After a month of con-
sultation on campus, Provost Adel
Sedra has moved quickly to make
the task force’s suggestions into
permanent university policy.
The financial aid policy centres
on the task force’s key recommen-
dation that the university under-
take to provide all students grants
equal to the shortfall between their
total financial need, as assessed by
the Ontario Student Assistance
Program, and what they actually
receive in government loan and
grant assistance.
In its report the 17-member task
force, chaired by Deputy Provost
Carolyn Tuohy and Vice-Provost
Derek McCammond, estimated
such a promise would have cost the
university an extra $1.5 million in
grants to students, had it been in
place in the last academic year.
The accompanying policy on
tuition enshrines many of the task
force’s other recommendations
including the undertaking to teU
new students in future tuition fees
schedules the maximum fee they
will be charged over their course of
study. The policy, approved by
Business Board on March 3, also
outlines the principles that will
govern the university as it decides
tuition levels for its graduate
and professional programs, where
tuition was recently deregulated by
the province.
Key principles in deciding
tuition costs include the need to
maintain quality, the cost of the
program, competitiveness with
other programs, the future income
of graduates, the level of public
subsidization and the need for
cross-subsidization of other uni-
versity programs, the policy states.
The strongest critic thus far
continues to be alumni governor
John Nestor. Casting the sole vote
~ See TUITION Page 3 ~
Cecil- Cockwell Named
Chair of Council
Wendy CeciTCockiuell
that the governors have selected
me,” said Cecil-Cockwell. “What
we have here at the university is
something worth preserving. I’m
thankful for this opportunity to put
my shoulder to the wheel to help
preserve this special place and
hopefully improve it.”
Outside the university Cecil-
Cockwell is director of the St.
Michael’s Hospital Foundation
and president of Brookmoor
Enterprises Ltd. She is an honorary
governor of the Olympic Trust of
Canada, a trustee of the Fraser
Institute, a member of the advisory
council of the Dancer Transition
Resource Centre and serves on the
annual fund committee of
Branksome Hall.
Cecil-Cockwell replaces depart-
ing chair Anthony Comper, whose
third three-year term on council
expires this year. Government
appointees to council, from whose
ranks the chair is drawn, are limit-
ed to a maximum of three terms.
“She will bring to the job a wealth
~ See CECIL Page 9 ~
WENDY Cecil-Cockwell
will be the new chair of
Governing Council, effective
July 1.
Currently the vice-chair of council,
CecU-Cockwell received her BA
from U ofT in 1971. A volunteer in
various capacities on campus for the
last 15 years, she also serves as chair
of the U of T Presidents’ Circle.
“I’m aware of the weight of the
responsibility and deeply honoured
Mediated Manley
John Manley, the federal minister of industry, spoke on campus March 12 as part of the McLuhan Programs Canada
by Design visionary speaker series. Manley, vohose lecture was titled Designing a Canadian Knowledge Nation, reit-
erated the throne speech promise to “ensure all Canadians have access to a world-leading information infrastructure
and the know-how to use it,” in part through a $55 million investment to create the worlds first nationwide optical
broadband computer infrastructure network.
Planning for End of Lean Years
BY BRUCE ROLSTON
JUST AS THE federal GOVERNMENT
is debating what its priorities
should be in the coming years of
budget surpluses, the university is
examining what its priorities will be
once it balances its own budget in
1999-2000.
Combined with a hoped-for
return to adequate funding for
universities by the provincial gov-
ernment once its financial house is
also in order, the coming years hold
great promise for the university,
says Provost Adel Sedra. “We wiU
then be in a period that we hope to
be one of relative financial stability
and continual quality enhance-
ment,” he told Business Board
March 10.
The board was reviewing the
university’s new set of long-range
budget guidelines, which comprise
the assumptions and objectives that
will govern university budgeting
until 2004.
The key assumption, Sedra said,
is that finally eliminating the uni-
versity’s accumulated deficit — a
long sought-after objective that has
been delayed by recent provincial
cutbacks as well as an anticipated
end to those same cutbacks — will
allow the university to return to a
period of overall revenue growth.
That growth wiU come from a
combination of increased provincial
funding and tuition increases for an
anticipated average increase in the
university’s net revenue — currendy
$600 mUlion — of two per cent a
year above the cost of inflation,
Sedra said. “This growth wiU be
deployed to effect program quality
improvement.”
Exactly how much of that two
per cent wiU come from tuition wiU
depend on the province. If the gov-
ernment increases its grant to U ofT
by the fiiU two per cent a year the
university is seeking, then tuition
need not go up at all in the first half
of the next decade, Sedra said.
That piece of good news also
depends, however, on employee
compensation increases during that
time being held to 0.5 per cent
below inflation, plus merit pay, the
long-term guidelines state.
Another caveat is that net tuition
income be aUowed to increase by 10
per cent for the last two years of the
current decade, since provincial
grants wiU be essentiaUy frozen for
those two years.
The provost also repeated his
promise that this fall wiU see a new
academic plan, a “white paper two,”
to guide the new period of growth
just as the last white paper guided
the university through the recent
cutbacks.
The guidelines have attracted
some criticism. At Business Board,
board member John Tory again
criticized U of T and Ontario uni-
versities as a whole for subverting
the provincial Progressive
Conservative party’s plans for tax-
payer relief when they offset the lat-
est funding cuts imposed on them
with large increases in tuition. “I do
not believe that was the premier’s
intent when he announced the
Common Sense Revolution,” Tory
said. Instead U of T should have
responded to the provincial cuts
through further reductions in its base
budget, Tory said.
But Sedra said such a strategy
would be extremely damaging
when taken on top of the $27.6
million in net reductions he has
already had to impose since the
beginning of the white paper plan-
ning period. Any such cuts could
only transfer into further staff
reductions on top of the more than
1,100 positions that have been lost
since 1991 and reductions in the
quality of education and research,
Sedra said.
President Rob Prichard agreed.
“There is no indicator I know of
that tells me we spend too much on
educating our students. Through
this period we have spent too little
on the quality of education. It’s not
good that we have a higher faculty-
student ratio today than before.”
JEWEL RANDOLPH
In Brief
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Taylor New Chancellor of Victoria
Former Canadian ambassador Kenneth Taylor will be installeij
as chancellor of Viaoria University May 14. He succeeds the Very
Reverend Sang Chul Lee, chancellor since 1992. Taylor, who received
his BA from Victoria College in 1957, joined the Canadian foreign ser-
vice in 1959, a career he followed for 25 years. His last two assignments
were as ambassador in Iran from 1977 to 1980 and as consul general in
New York from 1981 to 1984. It was while he was in Iran during that
country’s revolution that he and embassy colleagues offered a safe
haven to six U.S. diplomats and helped secure their evennial return to
the United States after their embassy was seized by revolutionaries.
Hawkings to Speak at Convocation HaU
A GROUP OF ARTS & SCIENCE STUDENTS KNOWN AS THE GLOBAL
Knowledge Foundation has persuaded one of the world’s most famous
scientists to give a lecture at U ofT. Professor Stephen Hawking of the
University of Cambridge, best known for his work on black holes and
his best-selling hoo\i A Brief History of Time, wUl discuss his search for
a “theory of everything” at Convocation Hall April 27 at 6:30 p.m.
Funds from the lecture will establish an undergraduate scholarship in
Hawking’s name. Tickets for the lecture sold out over the weekend.
Playing field renovations approved
U OF T WILL BE RESURFACING ITS PLAYING FIELD IN THE LOWER
Annex neighbourhood this spring. FoUovring extensive consultation
with local residents’ associations, the Faculty of Physical Education and
Health’s plans for improving the Robert Street field were approved by
the municipal area liaison committee earlier this month. The field will
be reserved for use by U of T and University of Toronto Schools on
weekdays, giving the community access on weekends. Long-term plans
include tearing down the site’s ice rink and two of its three tennis courts
and installing a larger athletic field with an all-weather surface.
Graham acclaimed to sixth term
Professor Bill Graham of philosophy at the University of
Toronto at Scarborough has been acclaimed for a sixth term as presi-
dent of the U ofT Faculty Association. Graham, vice-president of the
Canadian Association of University Teachers, has served the associa-
tion as a member of every salary, benefit and pensions negotiation team
during the past 10 years.
Awards <& Honours
Faculty of Applied Science &
Engineering
Professor Emeritus M.Jane Phillips of chemical
engineering and applied chemistry will be invested
into Professional Engineers Ontario Order of Honour
April 24 as a companion of the order. Being named to
the order recognizes outstanding contributions to the
profession; the ceremony will be part of PEO’s annual
meeting and conference in Cornwall, Ontario.
Professor Gabrielle Boulianne of physiology
has been awarded the 1997 Ruth Salta Junior
Investigator Achievement Award for Alzheimer’s
Disease Research, given by the American Health
Assistance Foundation to a scientist showing promise
in age-related and degenerative disease. Boulianne’s
research is using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
as a model system to study Alzheimer’s disease.
Professor David Clarke of the Department
of Medicine and cross-appointed to biochemistry has
received the 1998 Canadian Society of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology Merck Frosst Prize. The award
recognizes young scientists who have developed an
accomplished record of research in biochemistry or
molecular biology within the first decade of their
independent scientific careers.
Professor Kim Vicente of mechanical and
industrial engineering has been appointed a member
of the Committee on Human Factors by the U.S.
National Research Council for the period Feb. 1,
1998, to Jan. 31, 2001. The council is an agency of the
National Academy of Science and advices the U.S.
government on ergonomics.
Professor Tony Pawson of medical genetics
and microbiology has been selected to receive the
1998 American Association of Cancer Research-
PezeoUer International Award for Cancer Research, a
new award given biennially to recognize a scientist
who has made a major scientific discovery in the field
of cancer research. The award is in recognition of his
groundbreaking research into how cells communicate
and is accompanied by a prize of $100,000 (US).
Faculty of Arts & Science
Ilijas Farah of mathematics is the co-recipient
of the 1997 Sacks Prize with Tom Scanlon of the
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley,
California. The prize recognizes the author(s) of the
best doctoral dissertation(s) in mathematical logic
each year. Farah received his PhD in June 1997.
Professor Bruce Pomeranz of zoology (with
a cross appointment to physiology) is the recipient of
the 1998 Lifo Prize of $25,000 for “distinguished
achievements in research in acupuncture.” The award
recognizes his discovery that acupuncture reduces pain
by releasing endorphins in the brain; it also recognizes
his numerous publications on the scientific basis of
acupuncture.
OISE/UT
Professors Robbie Case and David Olson of
the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science at
OISE/UT were elected fellows of the National
Academy of Education of the U.S. Membership to
the academy is limited to 125 persons whose
accomplishments in the field of education are
judged outstanding.
Faculty of Medicine
Professor Sylvia Asa of laboratory medicine
and pathobiology will be awarded the Arthur Purdy
Stout Prize at the 1998 United States and Canadian
Academy of Pathology meeting. The prize recognizes
significant career achievements in surgical pathology
by young surgical pathologists whose research publi-
cations, basic and clinical, have had a major impact on
diagnostic pathology.
Faculty of Plwsical Fducation
& Health
Byron MacDonald, Varsity Blues swim team
coach, was voted both men’s and women’s 1997-98
Ontario University Athletics (OUA) swimming coach
of the year. The awards are voted on at the champi-
onships by the 15 coaches in the league; it is rare that
both honours are awarded to the same person.
On the Internet
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Not ONLY DID THE SCHOOL
of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture
recently revamp its under-
graduate and graduate pro-
grams, it has a new digital
Web site. Although I found
this Web site difficult to navi-
gate through, it’s certainly a showcase for the SALA’s talented
staff, faculty and students. The site gives viewers incredible
insights into these changing professions that now entail the use
of computer technology, animation and modelling. One of my
favourite student projects is Knowledge Mapping Images where
one learns to appreciate the rationale behind an architect’s vision
and design. Faculty works of interest include Crossings, a 3D
virtual landscapes project. The Information Technology Design
Centre, a resource for the school, features a fonky student gallery
and a cyber tour of a virtual metropolis, provided you have the
adequate software.
http:// www.saia.utoronto.ca
The Oympaign for U of T
www.uoftcampaigii.com
Research Updates (Notices)
www.library.utoronto.ca/www/rir/limpage/
PhD Orals
wwiv. sgs.utoronto.ca/plid_orals.htni
U OF T Job Opportunities
www.utoronto.ca:80/jobopps
If you want your site featured in this space,
please contact Audrey Fong, community
relations officer, at; audrey.fong(£'’utoronto.ca
Imagine standing at a grocery checkout counter.
Suppose your portable computer recognizes the cashier and
superimposes a shopping list (of your most recent purchases) on
her image. And you can see all of this in your sunglasses. Here’s
a unique opportunity to view it from the perspective of Professor
Steve Mann of electrical and computer engineering who
researches humanistic intelligence and wearable computers. He’s
not only a visionary scientist but a fascinating artist.
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~monn
Participating in digital democracy
This unique Web site is offered by the McLlhan Program
in Culture and Technology and the Faculty of Information
Studies in conjunction with the Canada by Design visionary
speaker series (Jan. 15 to April 9). Media moguls, government
leaders and media critics share their visions on the future of
Canada as linked to its policies on new media. If you can’t attend
these public forums, you can to \dew text excerpts of the speakers’
forums by clicking onto the “he said ... she said” icons, plus have
your say in the Vox Pop section.
http://www.candesign.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto Bulletin — 2 — Monday, March 23, 1998
JEWEL RANDOLPH
Faculty, Staff Respond to Appeal
INITIAL RESPONSE BY EMPLOYEES
to this year’s faculty-staff appeal
has been very positive, says Jon
Dellandrea, vice-president and
chief development officer.
Dellandrea said he was particu-
larly pleased with the 100 per cent
participation rate among principals
and deans in the “Great Match for
Great Minds” appeal. “This partic-
ipation clearly shows the tremen-
dous commitment of our senior
academic leadership to our mission
and to ensuring the campaign’s suc-
cess,” Dellandrea said. “It sets an
example to the university’s external
constituents.”
The chair of the senior staff por-
tion of the appeal. Professor Bruce
Kidd, agreed with Dellandrea,
citing the participation rate as proof
university academic leaders are
strongly committed to its current
fundraising campaign. “I am
delighted — but not surprised — by
the overwhelming support of prin-
cipals and deans for the Campaign,”
said Kidd, dean of the Faculty of
Physical Education and Health.
Ten thousand campus employees
received pledge packages in early
February asking them to support
diverse initiatives in the university’s
faculties, colleges and departments,
everything from student scholar-
ships and bursaries to library acqui-
sitions. To encourage contributions,
the university has promised to
match with its own funds all facul-
ty and staff gifts made or pledged
before the end of 1998 and paid
before Dec. 31, 2002.
Many individuals who have
given already say their contribution
stems from a desire to make a
meaningful contribution to the
quality of student life.
One such staff member is Julie
Berger, secretary to the principal
at Victoria College. This year’s
matching program enabled Berger
to create a bursary in the name of
her late husband. Professor Jacques
Berger of zoology. Berger was well
known for his work in collecting
biological specimens from all over
the world and the bursary being
established in his name will
support undergraduate students
participating in field biology courses.
Another employee benefactor is
Professor John Hawkins of the
Faculty of Music. Hawkins says
he firmly believes private dona-
tions are increasingly important
for student support and that, as a
faculty member, he had to
respond. “I feel that my contribu-
tion sets a positive example for
newer faculty mernbers about the
responsibility of faculty and staff
towards student aid,” said
Hawkins. “Payroll deduction over
the five year pledge period made
giving relatively painless.”
At the Institute of Child Study
at OISE/UT employees are work-
ing collectively to raise funds for
one large project. The institute’s
faculty and staff are using the Great
Match appeal to help raise $25,000
in support of the Robert Seth
Kingsley Graduate Student
Fellowship fund. Named for a
special child who overcame his
disabilities and enriched the lives of
his family and friends, the fund will
provide annual fellowships “to
student -teachers with outstanding
abilities in teaching children with
special needs,” said Jennifer
Hardacre, alumni development
officer at the institute.
Margaret Streadwick (left) and Joy Forbes are raising funds for a
Westindian exchange fellowship.
Rescue a Cause for Thanks
Seeking Donors
BYAILSA FERGUSON
To THANK THE PEOPLE OF
Barbados for rescuing a mem-
ber of the Varsity Blues swim team,
the Faculty of Physical Education
and Health and the swimmer’s fam-
ily have donated $1,000 US to the
University of the West Indies.
At a press conference held March
6, D’Arcy Thorpe, Canada’s deputy
high commissioner in Barbados,
presented the cheque to representa-
tives of the University of West
Indies along with a letter of
appreciation from President Robert
Prichard. Also recognized were the
two men instmmental in the rescue.
Dr. Graham MacGeoch and tourist
helicopter pilot George Morris. ,
Simon Eberlie, co-captain of the
swim team for the last two years and
in his final year at the faculty, almost
drowned during training camp in
Barbados in January. Team members
themselves pay for the trip.
On Jan. 3, their day off, a group
of about 12 went exploring the
rocky northern tip oGthe island.
Looking out over the 50-foot drop
into the ocean, Eberlie, a three-time
national champion, and two of his
mates — Steve Georgiev and Andy
Sundararajan — ventured down
onto a ledge about 10 feet below the
top. When a huge wave crashed
against the rocks the two who were
standing were able to hang on;
Eberlie, sitting, “had no chance to
get up and grab anything” and was
dragged off the ledge into the surf
below, U of T swim coach Byron
MacDonald said, recounting the story.
Sundararajan, after scrambling
up from the ledge and running
frantically along the cliff top,
met MacGeoch, out jogging.
MacGeoch had a cell phone and
called his pilot friend Morris of
Bajan Helicopters, who was able to
rescue Eberlie.
“The team wanted to do some-
thing,” MacDonald said. “We first
approached the pilot about paying
for his services and he refused,
saying it was his civic duty.” After
the event became front-page news
in the local papers, “Thorpe and I
chatted about what would be the
appropriate course of action,”
MacDonald said, “and he came up
with the idea of a donation to the
local university.”
A Bunch of Daffydils
The castofDaffydil, the Medical Society's annual theatrical revue, pauses during rehearsals at Hart HouseTheatre.
The show, which raises funds every year for the Canadian Cancer Society, ran from March 4 to 7. In the foreground
are (from the left) second-year medical students Cherine Salem, Sohal Goyal, and Anita Jethwa.
BY HAROLD HEFT
TWO STAFF MEMBERS HAVE
been using the Great Match
for Great Minds appeal to support
a very special cause.
Margaret Streadwick and Joy
Forbes, who work in the Division
of Development and University
Relations, are canvassing their col-
leagues to support the Louise
Bennett Graduate Exchange
Fellowship. The fellowship, named
for the renowned Jamaican poet
and educator “Miss Lou” Bennett,
is awarded annually to a graduate
student from U of T or the
University of the West Indies
working in the area of West Indian
literature or drama.
Streadwick and Forbes’ ultimate
goal is to raise enough money to
endow the scholarship, which,
since 1994, has provided at least
$5,000 of support per year to its
recipient.
Streadwick said that she was
looking for a way to commemorate
both her 25 years of work at the
University of the West Indies and
21 years at U of T when she heard
of the fellowship. “I couldn’t think
of a better way to celebrate my
career at these great universities,
and to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the University of
the West Indies, than by helping
students,” said Streadwick, espe-
cially since Caribbean studies is an
area of growing interest at U of T
and in Toronto as a whole, she
said.
Forbes, who celebrates 18 years
at U of T this month, agreed. “Just
the idea of giving a student a help-
ing hand was enough to get me
involved,” she said. “I’m also happy
to be contributing to West Indian
studies. It is a topic of great per-
sonal significance and I wouldn’t
want to see it neglected.”
Professor Michael Marrus, dean
of the School of Graduate Studies,
said he was thankful for the pair’s
initiative. “Graduate fellowships
are a major development priority at
the School of Graduate Studies.
That is why it is so encouraging to
see U ofT staff members taking a
personal interest in our students’
work. It signals to graduate
students that their work is valued
and appreciated.”
Although U of T employees
have been responding enthusiasti-
cally to Streadwick and Forbes’ call
for matched contributions, they
stiU have a long way to go toward
endowing the Louise Bennett
Fellowship. Despite this challenge
they are inspired by the Great
Match appeal. “It doubles our
chances of reaching our destination,”
Streadwick said.
Anyone interested in contributing
to the Louise Bennett Fellowship or
any other campaign priority are
welcome to call 978-8638.
Tuition, Aid Debated
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against the tuition policy at
Business Board, Nestor said the
university administration should
have presented a combined policy
for review by both boards, rather
than trying to exclude questions
about student aid policy from the
purview of Business Board.
“These financial aid policies are
impossible to divorce. Separating them
imposes an artificial distinction which
is meaningless to the student. I, for
instance, may be in favour of fee differ-
entiation, but I may not be in favour
of student aid differentiation.”
University of Toronto Bulletin — 3 — Monday, March 23, 1998
JEWEL RANDOLPH
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Child Welfare Tops
Round-Table Agenda
Bell donates $800,000 to social ‘work
BY JANE STIRLING
SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES WALK
a fine line between protecting
family rights and a child’s safety, says
Peter Pecora, a professor in the
School of Social Work at the
University ofWashington in Seatde.
Pecora, who is also a child welfare
researcher with Seattle’s Casey
Family Program (a privately
endowed operating foundation that
focuses on children in long-term
foster care), said social service
providers must carefully weigh the
pros and cons to maintaining fami-
ly unity or splitting up a family and
putting a child into foster care.
Speaking at the First Canadian
Round Table on Child Welfare
Outcomes at the Hotel
Intercontinental on March 19, he
emphasized there is no perfect
across-the-board answer for fami-
lies needing assistance — different
family situations require different
solutions.
Agencies must offer a mix of ser-
vices — including family preserva-
tion and foster care — to meet the
needs of children in their care, he
said. In some cases young people
benefit from interventions that keep
the family together. Research
suggests that children or youth with
mental illnesses, those with school
conduct problems and some juve-
nile delinquents are better served
when they remain in their own fam-
ily receiving social service support,
rather than being placed in foster
care. “Family preservation services
are about maintaining family ties,”
he said in an interview. “They
prevent placement trauma.
Unfortunately we often traumatize
kids when we put them into care.”
However, Pecora said family •
problems of severe substance abuse
or child maltreatment would neces-
sitate a child’s removal from a
harmful home situation.
Also at the round table, orga-
nized by the Faculty of Social
Work, Bell Canada announced an
$800,000 gift for the creation of a
new research unit in the faculty. The
Bell Canada Child Welfare
Research Unit will conduct and dis-
seminate research on child and fam-
ily services in Ontario and across
Canada, focusing specifically on
child maltreatment. The unit will
link social service agencies, govern-
ment and academic researchers
across Canada and increase access
to their work through Web-based
technology and a series of round-table
discussions. It wUl also serve as a
training centre for doctoral students
and service providers as well as a
place from which agency-based
research can be conducted.
The goal for researchers is to
develop and evaluate effective child
welfare services and policies aimed
at preventing child abuse and
neglect, said Professor Nico
Trocme, director of the unit. A
number of national child welfare
studies, including a survey on
violence against children, will be
conducted.
Professor Wesley Shera, dean of
social work, said Bell’s gift will
enhance the faculty’s ability to devel-
op a comprehensive child welfare
research agenda and to respond
effectively to agency and government
requests for research assistance.
Patricia Brady Tremaine, vice-
president, Ontario Consumer
Markets for BeU Canada, said BeU
is pleased to take a leadership role in
child welfare. “The area of child
welfare demands more attention,
focus and resources from corporate
Canada. Business and community
leaders like Bell Canada need to
become more involved in the issues
that affect our society and its
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JEWEL RANDOLPH
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Hart House Debates Iraq Issue
CANADIANS SHOULD PLAY NO
role in any American-led mil-
itary action against Iraq, said that
country’s ambassador, speaking on
campus March 3.
Haitham Al-Najjar was speaking
at a special debate hosted by the
Hart House Debates Committee,
the same week that a small
Canadian military force arrived in
the Middle East to join an anti-
Iraq coalition. The crowd of around
100 heard Al-Najjar’s criticize the
countries of the United Nations for
blindly following the U.S. line in
the Middle East. “The current cri-
sis has been escalated from no crisis
to a very serious crisis by America.”
Noting that the most recent
international crisis involving his
country had to do with Iraq’s insis-
tence that limits be put on the
activities of UN arms inspectors,
Al-Najjar reminded his audience
that his country has endured the
arms inspection resolutions of the
UN Security Council for the last
seven years, despite the lack of any
encouragement from the security
council in the form of an easing of
economic sanctions imposed after
that country’s 1991 war with a
U.S. -led coalition.
Before the ambassador’s
comments. Hart House’s award-
winning debate team had argued
both sides of the resolution, “Canada
should not participate in military
action against Iraq.” Second-year law
students Michael Kortes and Paul
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tion. “The rest of the world has two
options: submit to the will of Iraq and
let it do whatever it wants, or resist
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Law student Michael Shore and
University College alumna
Katherine Needham argued that
Canada should confine itself to a
diplomatic role in any future crisis,
not dispatch troops.
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Gift-in-Kind to ECE
Altera Corporation, based
in San Jose, California, has
donated hardware and software
equipment valued at more than $1
million to the Faculty of Applied
Science and Engineering, making it
the largest contribution ever made
by the high-tech company to a
Canadian university.
The gift-in-kind to the
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering s new digital
systems laboratories includes 450
compact disc student software pack-
ages and 140 full software licences.
Altera has also provided the
laboratories with 40 programmable
logic prototyping boards — hard-
ware that enhances and facilitates
the user’s ability to design
microelectronic chips.
“Altera’s gift has revolutionized
our capability to teach complex
hardware design to our students,”
said Professor Safwat Zaky, chair of
the department. “They’ve provided
us "with state-of-the-art hardware
and software currently used by top
engineers in the industry. It has
given U of T students a real edge.”
The digital systems laboratories
were established last fall and serve
more than 600 undergraduate and
graduate students in the depart-
ment. The Altera gift-in-kind will
further enhance the department’s
plans to double its enrolment,
Zaky said.
Founded in 1983, Altera
Corporation is a worldwide leader
in high-performance, high-density
programmable logic devices and
associated computer aided engineering
logic development tools.
Mathematics Benefits
A GIFT FROM LONGTIME U OFT
donor Marian Robertson adds
up to three exciting developments
for the Department of
Mathematics. The gift will create a
new endowed chair in applied
mathematics, an accompanying
new position at the assistant facul-
ty level within the department and
a new student scholarship fund.
The Norman Stuart Robertson
Chair in Applied Mathematics is
named in memory of Robertson’s
late husband who graduated from
U of T in 1914 with BA in
mathematics and physics. He then
went to Osgoode Hall Law School
and had a distinguished record at
the Bar of Ontario and in Canadian
business.
Professor Carl Anarhein, dean of
the Faculty of Arts and Science,
said the benefits of the gift will
have impact on students and schol-
ars in many faculties. “The research
and teaching this gift supports will
provide new connections between
the mathematics department and
the use of mathematics in many
other fields,” Amrhein noted.
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Lemon in the
Limelight
UOF T ALUMNUS ATOM
Egoyan, nominated last
week for two Academy Awards
for his film The Sweet Hereafter.,
may be hogging all the limelight
but a U of T academic also has a
small role in tonight’s Oscars.
The film Good Will Hunting,
nominated for best picture,
includes a modest reference to
Professor Emeritus James
Lemon of geography. In a
barroom scene the movie’s hero
gets a Harvard co-ed’s phone
number by using his knowledge
of Lemon’s theories on colonial
development to demonstrate his
intellectual superiority over a
rival. The exact words:
“You just finished reading some
Marxian historian, Pete Garrison
prob’ly, and so naturally that’s
what you believe until next month
when you get to James Lemon and
get convinced that Virginia and
Pennsylvania were strongly entre-
preneurial and capitalist back in
1740. That’ll last until sometime
in your second year, then you’ll be
in here regurgitating Gordon
Wood ... Do you have any
thoughts of your own on the
subject or were you just gonna
plagiarize the whole book for me?”
Lemon says he isn’t sure
whether to be flattered by the
reference or not. “I have mixed
feelings about it.”
The movie, which also
includes a cameo by physics
professor Patrick O’Donnell as a
barfly, was nominated for eight
other awards, including best
original screenplay.
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BY MEGAN EASTON
Researchers in the Depart-
ment of Physics have devel-
oped a new technique to determine
the age of sedimentary rocks that
could refine the geologic time scale
and provide new insight into global
sea level variations.
In a study published in the
March 6 issue of Science, the inves-
tigators describe the laser probe
argon-argon dating method which
direcdy dates individual grains of a
group of clay minerals, called glau-
cony, that commonly form within
sediments while they are being
deposited in water.
Until now scientists have used
potassium-argon dating on large
glaucony samples within sediment
to obtain average ages. This
traditional technique has been
considered unreliable since the ages
arrived at are often a few million
years younger than those found in
the surrounding igneous rocks and
for this reason some geologists have
ignored glauconies in constructing
their time scales.
In an analysis of individual glau-
cony grains taken from three bulk
samples previously used to construct
the geologic time scale, the
researchers found the grains yielded
ages scattered over millions of years.
“Each grain is a different clock,”
said Patrick Smith, a post-doctoral
feUow in the department. Only the
oldest grains gave the correct ages,
which were known before from
dating contemporary igneous rocks.
“We hope other scientists will
now reintegrate glauconies to revise
dates and ultimately produce a
better geologic time scale,” said
Norman Evenson, also a post-doc-
toral feUow working with Professor
Derek York, the lead investigator.
The study says the different states
of evolution among grains in a
sample may also indicate variable
sea levels. Glaucony forms in shallow
sea water and this process slows or
stops if the ocean is too shallow or
too deep. “We think we have a way
of dating the times at which glau-
cony formation is going on, which
allows us to follow the ups and
downs of sea level,” Smith said.
This new knowledge has applica-
tions in the oil exploration industry
since the sea level conditions for
forming glaucony are similar to
those required for the growth of the
organisms that eventually turn to oil.
Law Reaches Out to Minorities
BY CHERYL SULLIVAN
X iu!
'U CAN IMPROVE THE
justice system by becoming
a part of it.” That was the message
lawyer Julian Falconer delivered to
a group of 165 top visible minority
high school students at the Faculty
of Law attending a secondary
school outreach day earlier this
month.
Students from 50 schools took
part in the program, organized by
the faculty’s minority outreach
committee in cooperation with the
Metro Toronto School Board. They
participated in small group discus-
sions on tough legal issues, talked
to law students and lawyers about
their experiences and heard about
opportunities in the legal profes-
sion, racism in the justice system
and the role of law in social change.
“By opening up the doors and
inviting students in we are trying to
break down institutional barriers,”
organizer and second-year law stu-
dent Cornell Wright said. “For most
of these students it is their first time
on a university campus or inside a
law school. We also want to break
down psychological barriers. In
many cases people don’t associate
themselves with law school or high-
er education.” He explained that
high expectations are key to academ-
ic success. “It opens up possibilities.”
This is the first time the outreach
day has been held but attending high
school students hope it won’t be the
last. “It opened my eyes to law and
made me consider coming here in the
future,” said Wayne Lord, a Grade 12
student from Stephen Leacock
Collegiate Institute in Scarborough.
“It gives you a sense that you can be
anything you want to be,” said fellow
student Tisha Ray. “Whether you are
black, white, whatever, society allows
you to do that.”
The secondary school minority
outreach day is one of several
initiatives the Faculty of Law has
designed to encourage diversity
within the university’s law classes
and within the legal profession. The
faculty also participates in a U of T
multi-faculty summer mentorship
program aimed at encouraging high
school students in under-represent-
ed groups to consider law. Twelve
to 15 visible minority students par-
ticipate in the program each year
and receive a co-op credit for their
work. A law student is hired to run
the six week program which
includes lectures from professors,
mock trials, work with Downtown
Legal Services, a tour of Osgoode
Hall and attending court at Old
City Hall. Students are also required
to complete research papers. Last
year’s topics included euthanasia,
hate propaganda and the Young
Offenders Act.
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Monday, April 6th, 1998, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
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University of Toronto Bulletin — 8 — Monday, March 23, 1998
Connaught Fellowships,
Matching Grants Announced
BY STEVEN DE SOUSA
The Connaught Committee
has announced this year’s
recipients of its research fellowships
and new staff matching grants.
Nine faculty members in the
humanities and social sciences
were awarded research fellowships,
allowing redpients to take six months
off from teaching and administrative
duties to concentrate on their
research. Winners also receive
$5,000.
The 1997-98 winners in the
humanities are: Professors Melba
Cuddy-Keane of English at
Scarborough for her examination of
the works of Virginia Woolf; Lloyd
Gerson of philosophy who is writ-
ing a book about knowledge in the
tradition of Plato; Allan Greer of
history who is writing a book on
Kateri Tekakwitha, the first North
American Indian candidate for
sainthood; Heather Jackson of
English who is examining the
margin notes people make when
reading books; and Wayne Sumner
of philosophy for his examination
of the limits of free expression.
Redpients in the sodal sdences
are: Professors Gary Crawford of
anthropology who is studying the
origins of agriculture in northern
climates; Gillian Hadfield of law
for her research into sodal justice in
economic markets; Alo)^ius Siow of
economics for his look at markets and
gender roles; and Judith Teichman
for her research into the politics of
market reform in Latin America.
Fellows are selected on their record
in research and scholarship, relative
to career stage and on the scholarly
merit of their research proposal.
The Coimaught Committee also
awarded 44 new staff matching
grants for new junior faculty
members who are launching their
research careers in the humanities,
engineering, social, physical and life
sciences. The committee will award
up to twice the amount committed
by a department, up to $30,000.
Cecil- Cockwell New Chair
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of experience about the U of T gov-
ernance process,” said Comper.
“There is to my mind no more
committed alumna.”
President Rob Prichard agreed.
“Wendy has been exceptionally
effective as vice-chair. She is
remarkable as a volunteer in her
commitment to the university and
she knows the university in its
many parts well. She wiU be a very
worthy successor to Tony.”
Coundl secretary Jack Dimond
said Cecil-CockweU’s was the only
name put forward when a call for
nominations for the new chair was
put out earlier this month.
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University of Toronto Bulletin — 9 — Monday, March 23, 1998
Sexual Harassment
Stamp on Harassment
Campus complaints officer finds frequent misconceptions about her role
By Michah Rynor
I
■^HE CHARMING HOUSE TURNED
administrative office at 40 Sussex
Ave. is a deceptively quiet spot; in
fact this office will receive some 250 calls a
year from students, faculty and staff who find
their lives suddenly unbalanced by the
unwanted attention of someone on campus.
Sexual harassment at Canadian universities
received renewed prominence last year with
the bitter dispute over a staff member’s
dismissal and then reinstatement at
Simon Fraser University commanding
lurid headlines across the nation.
In the Simon Fraser case a swim coach was
accused of sexually harassing a female student
who was on the school team. Before the case
was settled the swim coach would lose his job
only to be reinstated after questions were
raised about the impartiality of the process
and the university administrators involved.
Despite the prominence given them, such
student-staff harassment complaints remain
comparatively rare, says Paddy Stamp, the
university’s sexual harassment officer. The
most common complaint she hears is of stu-
dents being harassed by other students. “It’s a
common misconception that it’s lecherous
professors after young females. When you
consider the large number of students at U ofT
compared with the vastly smaller number of
faculty, it’s easy to understand where the
majority of problems occur.”
Another misconception Stamp frequently
encounters is that her office will automatical-
ly side with any complainant. But that was
never meant to be her job, she says. “Some
people think that I’m solely an advocate for
alleged victims and will represent only their
interests. I don’t. I take up the interests of the
university through the mediation and resolu-
tion of complaints.” Her role is to ensure that
both the complainant and the respondent
receive a fair, effective and unbiased hearing,
she says.
Stamp deals <with problems often ^
Sexual harassment is an unfortunate reality,
she says. “Do I think that men have a procliv-
ity to sexually harass women and women to
be harassed by men? No I don’t. Do I think
that men and women have a proclivity to get
along with one another and form personal
and professional relationships that are plea-
surable and interesting? Yes I do. Do I think
that sexual harassment is a function of social
location and political power? Of course I do,”
she says.
Stamp says her first priority when an alle-
gation of sexual harassment emerges is ensur-
ing it is resolved in privacy. “I explain [to
complainants] the terms of confidentiality
that bind both of us,” says Stamp. “I will do
nothing with the information they’re providing
me without their permission.”
After hearing a complainant’s explanation,
it is up to Stamp to decide whether the
caused by lust, rejection and power.
conduct described falls within the scope of
university sexual harassment policies. If it
does. Stamp explains the options available,
including registering an official complaint
with her office. If the complainant decides to
go ahead, the details are put in writing.
Stamp then contacts the person accused and
begins the delicate process of informal
resolution through mediation.
“I’m the mediator,” Stamp says, “and I
work vfith the two parties in order to make
agreements regarding future conduct.” This
agreement may include having the com-
plainant change supervisors, finding ways for
the two parties to avoid each other or having
them agree to certain behaviour guidelines. If
this doesn’t work the complainant can request
an official hearing into the matter. The best
measure of Stamp’s mediation skills may be
that such a hearing has never been necessary
in the seven years she’s been associated with
the sexual harassment office.
Education is also a big part of her role.
Stamp says. For her the Simon Fraser case is
another reminder of the importance of mak-
ing the university’s policy on sexual harass-
ment known to faculty and students. She
suggests the situation there might not have
exploded if the instructor in question had not
taken his lawyer’s advice to ignore the university
hearing and allow a decision to be rendered in
his absence.
Thanks to an ongoing educational push on
Stamp’s part, more students are coming for-
ward with incidents of sexual harassment
from members of the same sex. “When I first
came to this office I realized that I wasn’t get-
ting complaints based on sexual orientation.
So I worked quite hard to make it clear
through our publications, workshops and
lectures that our policy does indeed include
sexual orientation harassment.”
As a result the numbers of complaints have
risen, “not because there has been a sudden
surge in sexual harassment based on sexual
orientation but because there’s a growing
awareness that we will deal with these com-
plaints,” says Stamp. Common occurrences
on campus are homosexual insults or physical
threats from a heterosexual male against
another male. “A heterosexual or homosexual
student being harassed sometimes finds it
hard to accept that this is sexual harassment
when it’s coming from another male.”
Stamp says the number of complaints
at U ofT is purely a function of size. Being in
constant contact with other colleges and uni-
versities reveals that “this level of complaints
is consistent with other institutions of this
size and it’s certainly a comparable ratio to
other big universities across Canada.” In fact.
Stamp notes in her annual report that 1997
was the first year where sexual harassment
complaints actually decreased slightly.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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University of Toronto Bulletin — 10 — Monday, March 23, 1998
ROB ALLEN
Books
The following are books by U ofT staff.
Where there is multiple authorship or
editorship, staff are indicated with an
asterisk.
Can Canada Survive? Under
What Terms and Conditions?
Transactions of the Royal Society
of Canada by David M. Hayne
(University of Toronto Press; 126
pages; SIS). In November 1996 the
fellows of the three academies of the
society — lettres et des sciences
humaines, humanities and social
sciences and sciences — gathered to
discuss perspectives on Canada’s
future. The symposium Can Canada
Survive? Under What Terms and
Conditions? resulted in 10 valuable
papers by insightful contributors,
published in this volume.
Criminal Justice in the Old World
and the New: Essays in Honour of
J.M. Beattie, edited by Greg T.
Smith*, AUyson N. May and Simon
Devereaux (Centre of Criminology,
311 pages; $25). The articles in this
festscrift are all drawn from primary
historical research. Their topics cover
the gendered nature of criminality.
the transformations in pre-trial and
trial procedure, the role of medical
experts and the importance of jury
composition in shaping the criminal
trial, the 18th-century trial and the
defence of English liberties, the
sale and marketing of criminal
biographies and the administration
of pardons.
A Romantic Historiosophy: The
Philosophy of History of Pierre-
Simon Ballanche, by Arthur
McCalla (E.J. Brill; 450 pages;
$154). This study locates the
philosophy of history of Ballanche
(1776-1847) within the intellectual,
religious and social life of Restoration
and early July Monarchy France
and argues for the recognition of
Ballanche as an important contrib-
utor to that milieu. Its four parts
blend the topical and evolutionary
approaches, analysing dominant
themes as they are developed across
Ballanche’s works. It demonstrates
that Ballanche’s synthesis of
traditionalism, liberalism and
illuminism effected a crucial step in
the historical-mindedness of
the romantic period.
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University of Toronto Bulletin — 11 — Monday, March 23, 1998
Letters
Not the whole picture
Since I receive The Bulletin by
mail, this comment is late and
may already have been answered.
However, I write because I find it
curious that a university publica-
tion illustrates an article with
questionable data.
Mapping It Out by Bonnie
Patterson is illustrated by a map
showing the percentage of decrease
and increase in public funding for
universities (Forum, March 2). At
least, I suppose that is what it is
though it is not stated in the key.
Although I have sympathy for the
institutions whose funds have been
decreased, the case is far from clear
on the basis of this simplistic
statement. Perhaps the greatest
decrease was in the provinces that
initially had the highest funding
— or were they already the lowest?
It would have been more reveal-
ing to tabulate (alongside the
percentage of change) the public
spending per capita of population
in each province/state; per capita
of university student; and as a
percentage of gross product in
the province/state.
Though tangential, the increase
of 8,000 students, stated in the
argument, also requires explana-
tion. Is it due to an increase of
those seeking higher degrees or
to low admission standards?
Blanche van Ginkel
School of Architecture Csf
Landscape Architecture
Just plain retired
The English language has a long-
established and growing list of
once obviously masculine Latin
nouns ending in -or (actor, author,
doctor, professor, etc.) that have
been neutered and are used indis-
criminately of both men and
women, specifically feminine
forms either never having existed
or, as in the case of “actress,” rapid-
ly passing out of use. The stUl-
Latin phrase “professor emeritus,”
however, with its masculine adjec-
tive used to modify a masculine
noun, as Latin grammar requires,
upsets many people who perceive
as inappropriate its (also long-
established) use to describe retired
women professors as well as their
male counterparts. They have
started using the term “professor
emerita,” an ungrammatical
construction that offends those,
including a lot of women, who
think that educated people should
not solve their problems by taking
refuge in a show of ignorance. In
Latin properly used, after all, a
woman can no more be a professor
emerita than a man can be a
persona (non) gratus.
The intelligent solution might
be to abandon Latin and use
English, from which most signs of
linguistic gender have already been
eliminated. This could easily be
done by reviving the long-obsolete
English adjective “emerited,”
which was taken direcdy from
emeritus and meant the same
thing, i.e., retired from active
service; having served out one’s
time. (Modern German has the
cognate form “emeritiert” which
means the same thing.) We could
say: “He or she is an emerited
professor,” and we could, if we
wished, use the less formal term
“emeritee” (on the model of
retiree) to refer to emerited per-
sons of both sexes. Alternatively
we could dispense completely with
all the derivatives of emereor, refer
simply to retired professors and
sign ourselves “professor of this or
that (ret.).”
My own preference would be to
continue to use the traditional
professor emeritus and construe it
as an inclusive term. But if that
continues to be a source of contro-
versy and injured pride, then either
of the above alternatives would be
preferable by far to the shabby
exercise in bad grammar that is
professor emerita.
James Estes
History
Frustrating research
I have been informed that, due to
administration policies recently
implemented, I have been cut off
from access to UTORdial, unless I
pay or my department pays for
extra tokens.
I am currently on research leave
and on four out of five weekdays
work more profitably at home
§ince that gives me two more
hours per day for research that
otherwise would be spent travel-
ling. Since, even though I am on
research leave, I conduct an e-mail
thesis seminar for my doctoral
students and am, furthermore, co-
editor of an international transla-
tion project, secure access to e-mail
is vital. U ofT’s “chass” domain is
simply not acceptable since it is
well-nigh impossible to access via
dial-in, even in early morning and
late at night. Moreover one would
have thought that at a university
that boasts of being a research
institution, research-related
activities would deserve the very
best in tools.
To be sure, my department is
prepared to buy the required tokens
for me to continue my research in
the most conducive manner. But
consider the implication. The
department, due to the rapacious
policies of the central administra-
tion, is already so strapped for
funds that it cannot even reimburse
faculty members for a single con-
ference attendance per annum, no
matter what one’s level of involve-
ment in international scholarship.
Moreover it has recently been
forced by outstanding “debts” to
the dean of arts and science to give
up a replacement in Egyptology,
promised by the administration in
return for the recent merger of two
departments (Near Eastern studies
and Middle East and Islamic studies).
At nearly every departmental
meeting we are told about further
“debts” owed to the dean. And so
the squeeze goes on and the
stran^lation continues!
That same department is now
once again being asked to make up
for an administration that refuses
to put its money where its mouth
is. How the chief administrators of
this shameful institution can have
the gall to trumpet that U ofT is a
research institution when at almost
every turn it frustrates research and
the means to communicate it is
difficult to understand. It’s high
time that we expose the adminis-
tration’s claim for the sham it is.
Albert Pietersma
Near and Middle Eastern
CmUZATIONS
Read Gospels in Greek
The letters by my colleagues
Trevor Lloyd in history and
Graeme Nicholson in religion
distressed me because they show so
little respect for Anatole Rapoport
and for scholarship (Letters, March 2).
I have known Rapoport for 13
years, even attended his classes
during the 1986-87 academic year,
and the last thing I would ever
accuse him of is stepping in a cow-
pat, as Graeme Nicholson suggests
he does, nor is he so bigoted as to
engage in jokes “at Christian
expense.” It distresses me especial-
ly that my colleague from the
Centre for the Study of Religion
would make such accusations. I
fear, gentlemen, you do not know
this honourable man who has been
nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize and richly deserves it in my
judgement. You border on vilifying
him publicly and I suggest owe
him an apology. I know that acad-
emics seem to find it hard to do so
but I still believe that an apology is
one of the nobler things we
humans can offer each other since
no one is perfect.
To be sure, Rapoport did not
perfectly reflect my position, but
he did catch the heart of it which
rests solidly on my reading of the
text, the Greek text. Unfortunately
neither Nicholson nor Lloyd show
any interest in looking at the
Greek text but prefer the King
James version. To prove me wrong
they will need to show me one
place in the passion narratives (in
Greek, please!) of all four Gospels
where Judas is called a “traitor” or
described as “betraying Jesus.”
Once only in Luke 6 is the word
“traitor” used to describe Judas as
such. Surely the Jewish and
Christian legal practice that it
takes more than one witness to
move something from rumour to
fact or historical truth applies.
But please, gentlemen, do not
disgrace us all by playing with
(Enghsh) words. Rapoport at least
read my book. I am sure you agree
that respectable and responsible
scholarship must work with the
original languages in which docu-
ments are written. If anyone really
would like to defend Judas as trai-
tor, please review my evidence.
Judging by the scholarly response
to my central thesis that a critical
analysis of the word used to
describe the act of Judas cannot
sustain the charge of betrayal, it
behooves those who must have
him as traitor to defend the walls
of their fortress well.
I never suggested that one has
to treat Judas as a whistleblower: I
only proposed that as one possible
option. It should be noted that the
scholar John Dominic Crossan
recently gave that a favourable
nod. But all must be determined
by our reading of the sources in
the original languages. I would
enjoy nothing more than a public
discussion with responsible
scholars on this matter.
William Klassen
Centre for the Study of
Reugion
On the Other Hand
B Y Nicholas P a s h l e y
Simple as ABD
IN THESE SENSITIVE TIMES IT IS
essential to avoid stereotyping
people. I for one refuse to stoop to
images of parsimonious Scots, humour-
less Germans or ethically challenged
lawyers. (Well okay, lawyers are fair
game, but not this month.)
One stereotype that lingers on is that
of the dumb athlete. Once again people
are tajking about bringing athletic scholarships to
Canadian universities and the purists are up in arms.
We don’t want our ivied halls sullied by men and
women who sweat. But as Juvenal — himself a second-
round draft pick in 77 AD — put it, “Mens sana in
corpore sano,” which means (and I think I’ve got this
right) men in saunas aren’t aazy about corporations.
The notion that athletes are dim just won’t go
away. A few years ago the then head coach of our very
ovm football team lamented this university’s high aca-
demic standards. How, he wondered, w'as he to field a
competitive team with nothing but smart people to
choose from?
Then there was the American story of the basketball
phenomenon who was recruited some years ago by a
major Midwestern university. Hang on, said one of the
pedants: this is a major university, shouldn’t he demon-
strate some sort of intellectual ability? So the young
man was duly subjected to an oral exam and asked to
name as many months of the year as he could recall.
His 75 per cent mark^was deemed satisfactory; after all,
some of them are fairly difficult. My point, however,
is that four years later, having been exposed to the
university environment, he could probably name as
many as KXor 11 months, possibly even in order.
Some sports have become integral parts of
American university life. Isn’t it a comfort
to watch an NFL game, knowing that prac-
tically all the players have university educa-
tions? One can only imagine the quality of
the locker room discussions. Other sports
have not integrated themselves as success-
fully into college programs. Take baseball,
for example. Earlier this month there was
the sad tale of the Boston Red Sox first
baseperson Mo Vaughn, charged with drunk driving
in Massachusetts.
According to the Associated Press story, Vaughn
had left a Rhode Island strip club, had somehow dri-
ven into a car parked off the highway and rolled his
pickup truck. Arresting officers testified that Vaughn
made a hash of eight sobriety tests and that on his
third attempt to recite the alphabet managed only
“A-B-D-C-H-L-M,” which suggests a willingness
to help but not much more.
Sounds like an open-and-shut case, right? Not so
fast. Vaughn had a lawyer, one Kevin Reddington,
who noted that his chent might not have been drunk.
Might have been (a) sleepy; (b) dazed by his accident;
or (c) unstable because he had gained weight in the
off-season. Not guilty, cried the judge, very possibly a
Red Sox fan.
What is my point? My point is that if Vaughn had
spent four years at university he might have done bet-
ter on the alphabet, the alphabet being a major part
of day-to-day campus life. My other point is that a
lawyer who can make weight gain a legal defence is
worth keeping in mind next time you face charges in
Massachusetts. I will also note that the day after his
acquittal Mo Vaughn returned to spring training and
hit three home rubs. I’ll have whatever he’s having.
University of Toronto Bulletin — 12 — Monday, March 23, 1998
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Park penthouse condo. Fully furnished' with
office (fax, computer, etc), etc. Panoramic
view of Lake Ontario, Toronto skyline. 1-
minute walk to subway. March 30 — June
30. Call 767-7772.
Accommodation
Rjentaes Required
House or 2-3 bedroom apartment in
central or downtown Toronto needed July
1998 to June 1999. Two physicians and
newborn, non-smoking, non-drinking, no
pets. Phone (415) 668-3941 or e-mail:
bayoumi@stanford.edu
Quiet, responsible graduate student
seeks studio apartment or bedroom and study
with shared facilities. Prefer walking dis-
tance to College St./U of T. May 1 . 654-7583
or starling@chass.utoronto.ca
Professional couple (non-smoking, no
pets) seeks 1- or 2-bedroom furnished
house/apartment to sublet/house-sit from
Mayl — August 31 in the Annex or close to
nC. Call Elizabeth collea (902) 492-0220 or
e-mail: erumble@is2.dal.ca
Accommodation
SHylRED
Danforth and Broadview. Fully renovat-
ed house to share. Ideal for visiting pro-
fessor or doctoral student. TTC 15 min-
utes to U of T. A 9x12 furnished
bedroom/office with Mac computer 21"
screen, modem, unlimited Web, with pri-
vate deck over backyard. $475. All appli-
ances, fireplace, yard. Street parking. Non-
smoking, pet-free, organized, quiet.
Includes maid/utilities. Call Ken Shepard,
Ph.D. 463-0423.
Accommodation
Overseas
Southwest France. Aveyron. Comfortable
private apartment in old hillside farmhouse.
Rentable weekly, monthly, year-round. Clegg,
Villevayre, 1 2270 Najac, France. Tel/Fax 00 33
5 65 29 74 88.
Paris-Montmartre. Perfect sabbatical rental.
Bright, spacious, modernized, furnished two-
bedroom apartment overlooking peaceful treed
courtyard. Six appliances. Secure. Elevator.
Resident concierge. Excellent transporta-
tion/shopping. No pets/smoking. September
1. $1,975 monthly. (416) 978-4882 or
1 02063.21 52@compuserve.com
Paris, Latin Quarter. June through August
1 998. September 1 998 to June 1 999. Attractive,
furnished, 1 -bedroom apartment, living-room
and study. Five minutes walk to the Sorbonne.
Fully equipped modem kitchen and bathroom.
$1 ,600 Canadian per month plus utilities. Tel:
(416) 924-6057, fax: (416) 978-8854.
Bed &. Breakfast
Bed and Breakfast Guesthouse. Walk to
U of T. Restored Victorian home. Single, dou-
ble and private en-suite accommodations.
588-0560.
Vacation / Leisure
IRELAND. Authentic century cottage near
seaside resort town for rent in Donegal. Stone
floors, open hearths, gas lighting. For more
info see this Web site: http://www.
execulink.com/-mmalone/cottage or phone
(519) 432-7395. June already sold out.
SCOTLAND. Quiet Edinburgh apartment, in
1860s private house, sleeps 4. To rent by
the week to careful, non-smoking visitors.
(Regret no children.) Phone/fax R. Sym:
(Edinburgh) 01 31 -447-2735 for more details
or Toronto (41 6) 425-0453.
Housi:s &
Propi:rtii:s
For Saia:
Bloor & Bathurst. Why rent? Only
$1 89,500! Ideal for single or couple, 2-storey
brick semi-detached. Fabulous street & location.
Total renovation — stunning open-concept
designer interior, Jacuzzi, hardwood & ceramic
floors, skylight, security system, private park-
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available! Call Mark Galea, Associate Broker,
Victoria & York Limited (416) 297-0222.
Health Servici:s
PERSONAL COUNSELLING in a caring,
confidential environment. U of T extended
health benefits provide excellent coverage.
Evening and weekend hours available. Dr.
Ellen Greenberg, Registered Psychologist,
The Medical Arts Building, 170 St. George
Street. 944-3799.
INDIVIDUAL AND COUPLE THERAPY.
Twenty years' experience in counselling for
personal and relationship difficulties. Coverage
under staff and faculty benefits. Dr. Gale
Bildfell, Registered Psychologist, 114
Maitland Street (Wellesley & Jarvis). 972-6789.
Individual psychotherapy for adults.
Evening hours available. Extended benefits
coverage for U of T staff. Dr. Paula Gardner,
Registered Psychologist, 1 14 Maitland Street
(Wellesley and Jarvis). 469-6317.
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
with a Registered Psychologist. Dr. June
Higgins, The Medical Arts Building, 170 St.
George Street (Bloor and St. George). 928-
3460.
Psychologist providing individual and
group psychotherapy. Work stress, anxiety,
depression and women's health. U of T staff
health plan covers cost. Dr. Sarah Maddocks,
registered psychologist, 1 1 4 Maitland Street
(Wellesley & Jarvis). 972-1935 ext. 3321 .
Psychotherapy. Dr. Joan Hulbert,
Psychologist. Yonge Street near Davisville.
(416) 465-9078. Focus on depression,
anxiety, substance abuse, difficulties with
assertiveness, relationship problems, self-
esteem, abusive relationships. Fees may be
covered by Employee Health Insurance Plan.
Dr. Dianne Fraser, Psychologist. Carlton
at Berkeley, 923-7146. Brief holistic coun-
selling and EMDR. Focus on stress, depression,
anxiety, phobia, grief, substance abuse, rela-
tionships, women's issues. Complete or partial
reimbursement through UT/insurance benefits.
Individual cognitive behavioural psy-
chotherapy. Practice focussing on eating
disorders, depression, anxiety and women's
issues. U of T staff extended health care ben-
efits provide full coverage. Dr. Janet Clewes,
Registered Psychologist, 183 St. Clair Avenue
West (St. Clair and Avenue Road). 929-3084.
Psychological services for children,
adolescents and families. Comprehensive as-
sessment of learning problems, emotional
and behavioural difficulties. Individual psy-
chotherapy, parent counselling. Dr. Meagan
Smith and Dr. Arlene Young, Registered
Psychologists. U of T area. 926-0218. Leave
message.
Dr. Gina Fisher, Registered
Psychologist. Psychotherapy for depres-
sion, anxiety, relationship problems, stress,
gay/lesbian issues, women's issues. U of T ex-
tended health benefits cover fees. Evening ap-
pointments available. The Medical Arts Building
(St. George and Bloor). (416) 932-8962.
Psychological Services for Infants and
Children. Assessment of developmental and
learning disabilities. Benefits packages may
provide complete/partial reimbursement. Dr.
Jo-Anne Finegan, Psychologist. 1 300 Yonge
Street, south of St. Clair. (41 6) 927-1 217.
Psychotherapy for adults. Depression,
anxiety, stress; personal, relationship, fami-
ly and work concerns. Dr. Carol Musselman,
Registered Psychologist, 252 Bloor Street
West. Call 923-6641 (ext. 2448) for a
consultation. Day or evening hours. May be
covered by extended health benefits.
Psychologist providing individual,
group and couple therapy. Personal and re-
lationship issues. U of T extended health
plan provides some coverage for psycholog-
ical services. For a consultation call Dr.
Heather A. White, 535-9432, 140 Albany
Avenue (Bathurst/Bloor).
Dr. Dvora Trachtenberg, Registered
Psychologist. Individual psychotherapy.
Couple/marital psychotherapy, Fees covered
by U of T staff and faculty health plan.
Evening appointments available. The Medical
Arts Building (St. George/Bloor). For an
appointment, please call (416) 932-8962.
DR. WENDY C. CHAN CONSULTANTS of
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vices by Registered Psychologist and associ-
ates to individuals, couples, families. Therapy
available in Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish,
Vietnamese, English for work and academic
stress, depression, anxiety, pain coping prob-
lems. Services can be covered through health
benefits plan. (416) 777-1612. Front/Jarvis.
Dr. Jennifer-Ann Shillingford. Registered
Psychologist specializing in COGNITIVE-
BEHAVIOUR THERAPY for stress, anxiety,
depression and addictive disorders. U of T
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cost. First Canadian Medical Centre (King &
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MASSAGE for aches, pains, and stress. 29
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age. Ann Ruebottom, B.A., R.M.T. (1970).
Tel. 9601 RMT (960-1 768).
THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE with aromatic
essential oils naturally effects a relaxation re-
sponse. Enjoy a quiet retreat from the stress
of daily life. The experience will rest and re-
fresh your body and mind. Bloor/St George
location. By appointment. Kathy Dillon, R.M.T.
787-1070.
REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPY.
For relief of muscle tension, chronic pain and
stress. Treatments are part of your extended
health care plan. 170 St. George Street (at
Bloor). For appointment call Mindy Hsu, B.A.,
R.M.T. (416) 944-1312.
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Toronto-wide pickup phone (41 6) 978-2968
orfax (416) 978-3802.
Technician position in the Program in Cell
Biology of the Hospital for Sick Children to
study the intracellulartraffic and function of
the CFTR and targeting of plasmid DNA.
Candidates with a M.Sc. degree and with
experience in protein chemistry and
molecular biology should e-mail their
resumes to Dr. Gergely Lukacs at
aambrus@sickkids.on.ca
Goblin needs a loving home. Large,
beautiful black cat. 4-year-old spayed
female. Cuddly, gentle disposition. Free to a
good home. 538-3704.
CUBE 8. CARGO VANS available for
people moving to Western Canada. These
are rental vehicles going one way only. Also
cars available to other destinations. Call
1-800-668-1879 or (416) 222-4700.
Un'iveisilyofToronlD
Department of Political Science
and the John M. Olin Lecture Series
present a lecture by:
Michael Walzer
Professor in the School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
"Deliberation...
and What Else?"
With a response by Professor Ronald S. Beiner
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 31, 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Hall, Room 400 (St. Michael's College)
121 St. Joseph Street
A follow-up seminar will take place the next day:
Wednesday, April 1, 10:00 a.m.
Sidney Smith Hall Room 3037
1 00 St George Street
University of Toronto Bulletin — 13 — Monday, March 23, 1998
Event.
Lectures
Can We Write the History
of a Gaze? Alfred Barr and
Jasper Johns.
Wednesday, March 25
Prof. Thomas Crow, Yale University. 140
University College. 4:30 p.m. Fine Art
Transforming the
Culture of Death.
Wednesday, March 25
Dr. Kathleen Foley, Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Centre, N.Y.; annual
Philippa Harris lecture. Main Lecture
Theatre, 6th floor. Princess Margaret
Hospital. 5:15 p.m. Joint Centre for
Bioethics
The Politicization of the Labour
Relations Framework in Ontario.
Wednesday, March 25
Kevin Burkett, arbitrator and mediator;
Larry Sefton memorial lecture. Innis
College Town Hall. 8 p.m. Woodsworth_
and Industrial Relations
Designing a Cultural Strategy for
a Canadian Knowledge Nation.
Thursday, March 26
Sheila Copps, minister of Canadian her-
itage; Canada by Design visionary speak-
er series. 205 Claude T. Bissell Building.
140 St. George St. 12 noon to 2 p.m.
KMDI, McLuhan Program, FIS,
Information Commons, Centre for
Academic Technologies and CITO
Design Safety:
Vertical People Movers.
Thursday, March 26
Louis Bialy, Otis Elevator, United
Technologies; Clarice Chalmers design
lectures. 102 Mechanical Engineering
Building. 12:10 p.m.
Future Trends in Silicon
Processing: Gateway to
Nanoelectronics.
Thursday, March 26
Gant Bai, Intel Corp. 266 Pratt Building.
2 p.m. Advanced Nanotechnology
Levinas, Memory and the
Obligations of Readership.
Thursday, March 26
Mark Clamen, PhD candidate, philoso-
phy. Room 8-214, 252 Bloor St. W.
3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Testimony & Historical
Memory Project, OISEAJT
Derivatives in a
Dynamic Environment.
Thursday, March 26
Prof Em. Myron Scholes, Stanford
University. Fleck Atrium, Rotman
School of Management. 6 p.m. Rotman
School of Management
Jesus, Socrates and Simcoe Hall.
Thursday, March 26
Prof. Paul Gooch, philosophy. Wycliffe
College. 7 p.m. Campus Chaplain's Office
Immigrant Nurses:
Human Rights and the State.
Friday, March 27
Prof Agnes Calliste, St. Francis Xavier
University. Room 506, 203 College St.
2 to 4 p.m. Ethnic, Immigration
Pluralism Studies
Deliberation ... and What Else?
Tuesday, March 31
Prof. Michael Walzer, Institute for
Advanced Study. Alumni Hall, St.
Michael’s College, 121 St. Joseph St.
5:30 p.m. Political Science and John M.
Olin Lecture Series
Nashe’s Unfortunate Traveller
as an Anatomy of Abjection.
Wednesday, April 1
Prof Michael Keefer, University of
Guelph. Senior Common Room,
Victoria College. 4:10 p.m. Reformation
& Renaissance Studies
From Here to Eternity: The
Ancient Mystery Cult at Eleusis.
Wednesday, April 1
Prof Michael Cosmopoulos, University
of Manitoba. 140 University College.
4:15 p.m. Archaeological Institute of
America, Toronto Society
Recovering the Nation?
India’s Partition and the
Case of “Abducted” Women.
Thursday, April 2
Jill Didur, PhD candidate, York
University. Room 8-214, 252 Bloor St.
W. 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Testimony &
Historical Memory Project, OISEAJT
Jesus and the Cross.
Thursday, April 2
Sylvia Keesmaat, Institute for Christian
Studies. Wycliffe College. 7 p.m. Campus
Chaplains Office
Sanctuary for Refugees: The
American and Canadian
Experience.
Friday, April 3
Prof Hilary Cunningham, University of
Notre Dame. Room 506, 203 College St.
2 to 4 p.m. Ethnic, Immigration &
Pluralism Studies
The Epigraphic Experience:
Luxor’s Chicago House.
Friday, April 3
Steven Shubert, Near and Middle
Eastern civilizations. 142 Earth Sciences
Centre. 6:30 p.m. Society for the Study of
Egyptian Antiquities
Basically Honest Is Not
Good Enough in Science.
Monday, April 6
Dr. Floyd Bloom, Scripps Research
Institute, La Jolla, Calif; annual Jus lec-
ture. Banting Hall, Room 113, Toronto
Hospital. 4 to 5:30 p.m. Joint Centre for
Bioethics
Lesbians’ Experiences of
Human Rights Violations:
A Global Perspective.
Monday, April 6
Maureen Anne Giuliani, PhD candidate,
women’s studies program; Popular
Feminism lecture series. Room 3-312,
252 Bloor St. W. 8 p.m. Womens Studies
in Education, OISEAJT
COLLOQUM
Molecules, Synapses and
Learning: The First Pieces of
Evidence for the Involvement of
an eph-FamUy Tyrosine Kinase in
Neural and Behavioural
Plasticity in Mice.
Wednesday, March 25
Robert Gerlai, Genetech, Inc. 4043
Sidney Smith HaU. 4 p.m. Psychology
Is Consent Really Necessary?
Thursday, March 26
Prof Anatoly Langer, Department of
Medicine; brown bag discussion. Dean’s
Conference Room, main floor. Medical
Sciences Building. 12 noon. Research
Services
Quantum Computing
with Trapped Ions.
Thursday, March 26
Prof Christopher Monroe, National
Institute of Standards 8c Technology,
Boulder. 102 McLennan Physical
Laboratories. 4:10 p.m. Physics
Self-Constitution in the Ethics
of Plato and Kant.
Thursday, March 26
Prof. Christine Korsgaard, Harvard
University. 179 University College:
4 p.m. Philosophy
Unresolved Loss, Frightened and
Frightening Caregiving and
Attachment Disorganization
in Infancy.
Monday, March 30
Prof Deborah Jacobvitz, University of
Texas at Austin. 4043 Sidney Smith
Hall. 4 p.m. Psychology
The Physics of Magic and Vice
Versa — a Travelling Road Show.
Thursday, April 2
Prof Dave Wall, City College of San
Francisco. 102 McLennan Physical
Laboratories. 4:10 p.m. Physics
Michael de Leone’s Hausbuch:
The Making of a Medieval
Miscellany Manuscript.
Friday, April 3
Prof Melina Adamson, University of
Western Ontario. 323 Victoria College.
4 p.m. IHPST
Seminars
Methodology of Research on
Early Buddhism.
Monday, March 23
Prof Em. A.K Warder, East Asian stud-
ies. Combination Room, Trinity College.
7 to 9 p.m. Trinity Divinity
Prayer and Spirituality
in the Art of Healing.
Monday, March 23
Pattabi Raman, Center for the
Promotion of Learning Abilities,
Renton, Wash.; reflections on a sympo-
sium held in spring 1977. 4279 Medical
Sciences Building. 7:30 p.m. Campus
Association for Baha'i Studies
Targeting Memory Using
Immunoadhesins: EphA5, a
Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, Plays
Roles in Hippocampal Neural
and Behavioural Plasticity
in Vivo in Mice.
Wednesday, March 25
Robert Gerlai, Genentech Inc. 968
Mt. Sinai Hospital. 12 noon. Samuel
Lunenfeld Research Institute
G Protein-Calcium Ion Link in
Bipolar Affective Disorder.
Wednesday, March 25
Masoumeh Emamghoreishi, PhD
candidate, pharmacology. 4227 Medical
Sciences Building. 4 p.m. Pharmacology
New Values for the
Coming World Order.
Wednesday, March 25
Pattabi Raman, Center for the
Promotion orf Learning Abilities,
Renton, Wash. 3109 Sanford Fleming
Building. 7:30 p.m. Campus Association
for Baha'i Studies
Evaluation of Teaching and
Programs at the Undergraduate,
Postgraduate and Continuing
Education Level.
Thursday, March 26
Speakers: Drs. Gary Sibbald, Jerry
Tenenbaum and Anita Rachlis,
Department of Medicine; education
grand rounds. Cummings Auditorium,
Women’s College Hospital.
7:30 to 9 a.m.
Imidazolines, a New Chemical
Class of Anti-Diabetic
Compounds.
Friday, March 27
Gerald Gold, Lilly Research Laboratories,
Indianapolis. 3231 Medical Sciences
Building. 12 noon. Physiology
The Lost Ark: Biodiversity in the
Primary Forests of Vietnam.
Friday, March 27
Doug Currie, Royal Ontario Museum.
3127 South Building, University of
Toronto at Mississauga. 12 noon. UTM
Biology
Democratization, Institution
Building and the Prevention of
Complex Human Emergencies.
Friday, March 27
Prof Richard Sandbrook, political science;
development seminar. Conference Room,
Centre for International Studies, 8th floor,
252 Bloor St. W. 12 noon to 2 p.m.
Global-Local Interaction and
Political Space.
Friday, March 27
Prof Jonathan Barker, political science.
3050 Sidney Smith Hall. 2 to 4 p.m.
Political Science
The Chemistry of Fungal
Antagonism and Defence.
Friday, March 27
Prof James Gloer, University of Iowa.
3087 Earth Sciences Centre. 3:30 p.m.
Botany
Mind, Body and Agjng:
An Overview of Later- Life
Changes with Aging in the
Human Body and the Mind.
Monday, March 30
Profs. Robert Goode, Faculty of Physical
Education 8c Health, and Gordon
Winocur, psychology. Suite 106, 222
College St. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Human
Development, Life Course & Aging
The Academic Study of
Buddhism in North America:
A Silent Sangha.
Monday, March 30
Prof Charles Prebish, Pennsylvania State
University. Combination Room, Trinity
College. 7 to 9 p.m. Trinity Divinity
Characterization and Treatment
of Solid Waste Generated in Iron
and Steel Manufacturing.
Ghassan Abouatallah, graduate student,
chemical engineering and applied chem-
istry. 252 Mechanical Engineering
Building. 12 noon. Environmental
Engineering
Deliberation ... and What Else?
Wednesday, April 1
Prof Michael Walzer, Institute for
Advanced Study; follow-up to lecture
March 31. 3037 Sidney Smith Hall.
10 a.m. Political Science and John M. Olin
Lecture Series
Engineering Surfaces with
Polymers and Amphiphiles.
Wednesday, April 1
Prof Matthew Tirrell, University of
Minnesota. 116 Wallberg Building.
12:30 p.m. Chemical Engineering &
Applied Chemistry
Discovery of a Novel Estrogen
Response Element.
Wednesday, April 1
Na Yang, Eli Lilly Research
Laboratories. 4227 Medical Sciences
Building. 4 p.m.. Pharmacology
In the Crossfire: The East
Galician Jewry in Wars and
National Conflicts, 1914-1920.
Wednesday, April 1
Alexander Prusin, PhD candidate,
history. 2090 Sidney Smith Hall. 4 p.m.
CREES
Changing Attitudes to the Body
in Japan: From the 18th to the
21st Centiuy.
Thursday, April 2
Morris Low, Australian National
University; Hannah seminar for the his-
tory of medicine. Great Hall, 88 College
St. 4 to 6 p.m. History of Medicine
Genetic Conflict between the
Sexes: Implications for
Speciation and the Evolution of
the Y Sex Chromosome.
Friday, April 3
Prof. Bill Rice, University of California at
Santa Cruz. 3127 South Building,
University of Toronto at Mississauga.
12 noon. UTM Biology
The Taxonomy of Patience, or
When is Patientia Not a Virtue?
Friday, April 3
Prof R. Kaster, Princeton University.
144 University College. 3:10 p.m. Classics
Field Methods in Research in
Ethnic Buddhist Communities.
Monday, April 6
Prof. Janet McLellan, study of religion.
Cartwright Hall, St. Hilda’s College.
7 to 9 p.m. Trinity Divinity
Meetings &
Conferences
Planning & Budget Committee
Tuesday, March 24
Council Chamber, Simcoe Hall. 5 p.m.
Victoria Women’s Association.
Wednesday, March 25
University Professor John Polanyi of
chemistry and Nobel laureate will be the
guest speaker at the meeting. Alumni
Hall, Victoria College. 2 p.m.
Public Good or Private Greed?
Building a Democratic Society.
Saturday, March 28
Progressive Academic- Activist Collective
conference with Josephine Grey, Low
Income Families Together; Prof Em.
Mel Watkins, economics; Ruth Grier,
former minister of both environment and
health; and Andrea Calver, Ontario
Coalition for Social Justice. Innis College
Town Hall. 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Registration is free. Information: 978-1558.
University Affairs Board.
Tuesday, March 31
Council Chamber, Simcoe Hall. 4:30 p.m.
Planning & Budget Committee.
Tuesday, April 7
Council Chamber, Simcoe hall. 5 p.m.
Plays ^Readings
Tuesday, March 24
Author reads from his new book The
Gifts of the Jews', U of T Bookstore
Reading Series. George Ignatieff
Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place. 7:30 p.m.
U ofT Bookstore and CBC Radio One
The King Stag.
Wednesdays to Sundays,
March 25 to April 5
By Carlo Gozzi, translated by Albert
Bermel and Ted Emery; directed by Alec
Stockwell. Graduate Centre for Study of
Drama production in collaboration with
Department of Italian Studies. Robert
Gill Theatre, Koffler Student Services
Centre. Performances at 8 p.m. except
Sunday 2 p.m. Tickets $15, students and
seniors $12. Box Office: 978-7986.
University of Toronto Bulletin — 14 — Monday, March 23, 1997
Eric McCormack.
Thursday, March 26
Reading by author of The First Blast of
the Trumpet Against the Monstrous
Re^ment of Women. Hart House Library.
4 p.m. Hart House Library Committee and
Celtic Underground
The Insect Play.
Thursday TO Saturday,
March 26 to March 28
Adapted by Stephen Johnson from the
work of Karel and Josef Capek; directed
by Jennifer Johnson and Stephen
Johnson. Handmade Performance pro-
duction. Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris
St. Performances at 8 p.m. Tickets $10.
Deborah Tannen.
Tuesday, March 31
Author reads from her new book The
Argument Culture: Movingfrom Debate to
Dialogue. U ofT Bookstore. 7 p.m. U ofT
Bookstore
Exhibitions
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
ART CENTRE
Richard Gorman:
Recent Watercolours.
To March 27
Highlights recent gifts. Alcove space.
Problem Pictures.
To March 27
Selections from permanent collections;
explores problems inherent in any collec-
tion: provenance, authenticity, attribu-
tion. Boardroom space. Hours: Tuesday
and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday
and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.;
Saturday, 12 noon to 4 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
AT SCARBOROUGH
Student Elxhibition.
To March 27
Annual juried student exhibition.
Senior Student Exhibition.
April 1 to April 17
Work of senior students. The Gallery.
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday,
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
REGIS COLLEGE
Intus/Foris. A Dialectic.
To March 28
Claudia Sbriss, new works. Foyer. Hours:
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Committees
Task Force
Task Force to Develop an Asia
PACinc Strategy
The vice-president (research and inter-
national relations) and the provost in
consultation with the vice-president and
chief development officer have agreed
on the advice of the International
Academic Advisory Board that there
be a review of the current organization
and efficacy of the arrangements of
the university’s activities related to the
Asia-Pacific region. In pursuit of the
objective of considering an Asia-
Pacific strategy for the university.
Professor Heather Munroe-Blum,
vice-president (research and interna-
tional relations), and Provost Adel
Sedra have appointed a two-person
task force: Professors Michael
Donnelly, associate dean (develop-
ment), Faculty of Arts 8c Science, and
Marion Bogo, Faculty of Social Work.
Terms of Reference
1. Describe the range of teaching
activities of the University ofToronto
related to an understanding of the region.
2. Review the various sources of data
and information available at the
University ofToronto pertaining to
the Asia-Pacific region.
3. Describe the full range of research
programs and linkages among schol-
ars at the University ofToronto and
scholars in the Asia-Pacific region.
4. Review student recruitment and
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Thursday, March 26
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elected by all members of the graduate faculty of respective
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from its membership (Chairs/Directors of graduate units)
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students of the division
2 members of the administrative staff working in the administration
of graduate units
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and Life Sciences.
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nominated. Administrative candidates must be permanent members of
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University of Toronto Bulletin — 15 — Monday, March 23, 1997
I -i ‘I
The People vs. Margaret and Barker Fairley
Nearly fifty years ago a U of T professor was banned fom the United States; his former colleague acquiesced
By David Kimmel
I
"^HIS ESSAY IS ABOUT MARGARET AND
Barker Fairley, two Toronto teachers
and writers who were well known to the
University College community. Barker, who died
in 1986 at nearly 100 years old, is remembered
fondly by the friends who survived him and who
set up the Barker Fairley Distinguished
Visitorship in Canadian Studies here at UC.
Most of you won’t know much about Barker;
maybe you wondered why there is a Barker chair
at UC for “fairly distinguished” visitors. Even
fewer of you will know of Margaret Adele, his
wife of over 50 years who died in 1968. Margaret
(nee Keeling) was Oxford educated, finishing
with a “first” in English though denied her
degree because she was a woman. At the
University of Alberta she met Barker Fairley.
They married in 1913 and she resigned her posi-
tion as dean of women to move with Barker to
Toronto.
In 1932, the Fairleys returned to England.
Amid the working-class poverty and political
unrest of Depression-era England, Margaret fell
in Mth Marxist activists and when the family,
missing Canada, returned in 1936, she joined the
Communist party here and remained a member until she died.
In Toronto, Barker became head of University College’s
German department. Margaret, her children now grown, also
took up the pen. In 1946 she published her first book. The
Spirit of Canadian Democracy, an anthology that “established
the continuity between Marxist literary activity and other writ-
ing of social protest in Canada.” Two years later Barker pub-
lished his landmark book .<4 Study of Goethe, which confirmed
his status as one of the world’s leading Germanists. In 1949 the
world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe’s birth and Barker Fairley, now the foremost
Goethe scholar working in English, was invited to several
American and British universities to keynote the festivities.
Barker was at New York’s Columbia University as
a visiting professor that same year. His stay, he later said, was
personally rewarding though mainly uneventful. Uneventful,
that is, until the last weekend of March when Margaret visit-
ed. She had planned her trip to coincide with the Cultural
and Scientific Conference for World Peace (often called the
Waldorf Conference because most of the events were held at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel). The conference had been
planned by a group of left-wing American intellectuals
known as the National Council of Arts, Sciences and
Professions and it won endorsements from such important
figures as Thomas Mann, Aaron Copland and Albert
Einstein. But the support of these men and others hardly
muted the suggestion that the conference was underwritten
by the Soviet propaganda organ Cominform. New York
University philosopher Sidney Hook certainly thought it was.
Organizers had denied Hook the chance to deliver a
lecture. Hook took the decision personally and in response
organized a counter-conference under the auspices of a group
called Americans for Intellectual Freedom. Some of his crit-
ics suggested that the group was the creature of the U.S. State
Department but Hook was probably acting in tandem with
fellow pragmatic rationalists to support “freedom of expres-
sion.” Feeling that a possible anti-intellectual inquisition
would be a greater threat to the American way of life than
ever was the eventuality of Communist subversion. Hook and
his cohorts felt the most practical means of preventing possi-
ble future witch-hunts was to marginalize and discredit those
American intellectuals who would wittingly or otherwdse
support Stalin’s Soviet Union.
But it did look as though Hook and Americans for
Intellectual Freedom were cooperating with Secretary of
State Dean Acheson, who labelled the planned Waldorf
Conference “a sounding board for Communist propaganda.”
Weeks before the conference, Washington began refusing
visas to high-profile left-wing foreign nationals.
Another partner in the effort to discredit the conference
was the New York press. The run-up to the conference was
marked by an escalation in newspapers’ attention to the
subversive wiles of world communism. In a story printed
nation-wide, the United Press wire service confirmed the
conference a Communist party “front” activity.
The conference turned out to be a wild and rough affair. In a
foreshadowing of the McCarthyism to come. Hook and his peo-
ple held a rally at Madison Square Garden. Afterwards thou-
sands of anti-communist protesters filled the streets outside the
Waldorf — the largest demonstrations in New York’s history.
Barker AND Margaret Fairley left after only a few
minutes at the opening banquet at the Waldorf But not of
their own accord. During the dinner Margaret was called
away from her table, understanding that there was a tele-
phone call for her. She and Barker walked out of the banquet
hall and into the hands of waiting U.S. Immigration Service
investigators. Then they were led away for questioning, but
not before having their pictures taken by well-placed newspa-
per photographers. The hour-long interrogations were con-
ducted as politely as possible under the unpleasant circum-
stances. Barker, insisting that he belonged to no political
party and never had, was released. Margaret, however, was
told she should prepare to leave the U.S. at once or face arrest.
When she asked what the charges would be, officials told her
— a 65 year-old grandmother — that she was considered a
threat to national security. She was on the next train home.
Pearson admitted
NO Canadian protest
HAD BEEN MADE
OR EVEN PLANNED
The following day, the Fairleys’ story was covered in the
Canadian press with a certain amount of disbelief Margaret
told reporters, tongue-in-cheek, that her expulsion was based
on the fact that the U.S. did not allow atheists into the coun-
try. Unstated was the fact that she was a member of the
Labour Progressive Party — in other words, a Communist.
The New York JournaTAmerican, however, running a large
front-page photo of the Fairleys leaving the Waldorf in dis-
grace, did make that fact abundantly clear. At last and for all
to see, real live Communists had been sniffed out at that
dubious peace conference. Offered up to the hungry press
as scapegoats, they became central figures in some
of the most lurid stories in almost a month of
sensationalized news coverage.
Barker was allowed to stay in New York to
complete his term at Columbia. But when he
tried to return to the States later in 1949, he was
refused admission — banned permanendy, in
fact, from entering the U.S. Officials at Bryn
Mawr College in Philadelphia, where he was to
have delivered the prestigious Flexner lectures,
made inquiries and protested his mistreatment.
But it was to no avail. Friends and colleagues at
Columbia had also voiced their concern about
what happened in March at the Waldorf
University president Dwight Eisenhower was
reportedly disturbed by the way the Fairleys
were persecuted.
The only real show of support by Canadians,
however, was made by a group of expatriate grad-
uate students at Columbia. In a letter sent to
political leaders back home, they expressed their
objections to the U.S. government officials’ mis-
treatment of Barker and Margaret. What
alarmed these Canadian students most was that
the incident had not become an “issue.”
Foreigners in the United States, they wrote, had
reason to be concerned about their own personal welfare. As
things stood, they had “no way of knowing what action of
theirs may constitute grounds for being asked to leave the
country.” They were particularly distressed by the attitude of
U.S. officials who acted on the assumption that “the govern-
ment of a neighbouring power, traditionally friendly to the
United States, would be reluctant to object to such treatment
of its citizens.”
Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Pearson, who
had taught history at U of T when Barker Fairley was teach-
ing German, did order an investigation of the incident.
However, he underscored that his interest in what happened
to the Fairleys was “solely in the fact of their being Canadian
citizens and must not be interpreted as indicating approval” of
their political views.
Pearson admitted to the House of Commons, in a matter-
of-fact tone, that no Canadian protest had been made or was
even planned. Instead, he at first reserved judgement on
whether “further steps” were necessary. Six months later
Pearson flippantly condoned “our neighbour’s legitimate
desire to strengthen its border regulations in order to hinder
the tourist and convention actiidties of Communist agents.”
His only reservation concerned the inconvenience and
embarrassment caused to innocent citizens. All he and his
diplomats could do was to discuss the question with U.S.
authorities on a “very friendly basis, as we always do.”
Three years later Margaret was one of the few Canadian
writers to openly criticize the parties involved in what is
known as the “TSO Six” affair. The six musicians were not
rehired by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra when the U.S.
Immigration Service ruled that their presence on American
soil would be “detrimental to the best interests of the coun-
try.” The orchestra did nothing to support its banned musi-
cians; the inquires of Canada’s ambassador were ineffectual.
Writing about the incident Margaret characterized the event
as a “conspiracy of silence” that included Pearson, now chan-
cellor of Victoria College. In her opinion the fact that
Pearson could do nothing about the affront to the dignity of
six Canadian musicians was proof of something larger than
simple harassment of a few apparently left-leaning citizens.
The impact of the Waldorf episode was not hurtful in the
long run for Barker. The lectures he was not allowed to give
at Bryn Mawr were published in 1953 and became a classic
text in German literary studies. In later years he said his
exclusion from the United States probably gave him the
opportunity for his work to flourish. But the ban was never
lifted, and he returned to the U.S. only once; as a very elder-
ly man, he slipped across the border at Lewiston. “Just for
kicks,” he said.
David Kimmel teaches Canadian Studies at Brock University. He
spoke at this year’s UC Symposium on Gossip, Denunciation and
Praise.
University of Toronto Bulletin — 16 — Monday, March 23, 1998
PEARSON PHOTO BY JACK MARSHALL. DIGITAL PHOTO ASSEMBLY BY MIKE ANDRECHUK